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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Ophthalmology Volume 2012, Article ID 103704, 5 pages doi:10.1155/2012/103704 Review Article Anterior Chamber Angle Evaluation with Fourier-Domain Optical Coherence Tomography Matthew Bald, Yan Li, and David Huang Center for Ophthalmic Optics Lasers, Casey Eye Institute and Department of Ophthalmology, Oregon Health Science University, Portland, OR 97239-4197, USA Correspondence should be addressed to David Huang, davidhuang@ Received 20 March 2012; Accepted 13 June 2012 Academic Editor: Norma Allemann Copyright © 2012 Matthew Bald et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. New advances in anterior segment optical coherence tomography (OCT) technology development allow visualizing the anterior chamber angle of the eye with high speed and high resolution. Fourier-domain (FD) OCT instruments working at 840 nm can reliably identify fine angle structures such as the Schwalbe’s line. This paper demonstrates quantitative angle assessment with 840 nm FD-OCT and provides diagnostic cutoff values for occludable angle detection. This is useful for angle closure glaucoma diagnosis and management. Moreover, 840 nm FD-OCT is a useful tool for postsurgical evaluation in glaucoma patients. 1. Introduction limits the speed of image acquisition. In contrast, FD- OCT—also known as spectral-domain (SD) OCT, spectral Since its initial development approximately two decades ago OCT, high-definition (HD) OCT, and frequency-domain [1], optic